Kanji1 / 9
律 kanji
rhythm, law, regulation, gauge, control
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
リツリチレツ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 律
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —律文legal provisions; verse
- —律法law; rule; precept; Torah (first five books of the Hebrew Bible)
- —律師preceptor; priest
- —律旋Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do, i.e. the Dorian mode)
- —律詩lüshi; form of Chinese poetry with eight lines of seven or five characters
- —律語well-shaped verse
- —定律fixed law
- —律呂standard tones; Chinese system of musical sounds
- —律宗Ritsu (school of Buddhism)
- —律管ancient Chinese pitch pipe (12 pipes corresponding to the ancient Chinese chromatic scale)
- —律速rate-limiting; rate-determining
- —相律phase rule
- —新律new law
- —持律strictly adhering to Buddhist precepts
- —黄金律The Golden Rule ("do unto others as you would have them do unto you")
- —排他律exclusion principle
- —不規律irregular; undisciplined; disorganized; disorganised; slipshod
- —平均律equal temperament; mean-tone tuning
- —法律上legal; from a legal standpoint; legally speaking; de jure
- —一律にuniformly; evenly; equally; indiscriminately; across the board